Act Against Scams

SCARS|RSN™ ACT AGAINST SCAMS! - Call To Action Do You Want To Do Something To Make A Difference? Here is something very simple: Save this graphic to your phone / tablet / computer. Then when you find a fake profile, add it as a comment on the top post so other potential victims will know the risk! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [...]

SCARS™ Campaign: How To #ActAgainstScams Today The Internet Is Overrun With Scammers! Scammers of every possible nationality, scamming with every imaginable type of fraud! They have spread from Africa and Russia to the four corners of the globe. Just two years ago hardly anything was being done to stop them. Scams were allowed to spread almost unchecked with only token arrests being made. However, today is a different story. Over 21,000 scammers were arrested in 2018 [...]

SCARS|RSN™ Insight: Where Do Scammers Find You? Would You Believe It Is Facebook Groups? If you belong to any type of a BUY & SELL or DEALS Group on Facebook you are an automatic target for scammers! Scammers have profiled typical victims to be members of these groups. You will find them full of scammers targeting their members just like YOU! Scammers know that the BUY & SELL groups are easy hunting grounds because their members have [...]

SCARS|RSN™ Presents The ZOOSK Guide To Romance Scams The Online Dater’s Guide to Romance Scams Courtesy Of ZOOSK Once you know what you’re looking for, romance scammers can actually be very easy to identify and avoid. Check out these common behaviors and examples to learn how to spot a scammer. http://romancescamsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OnlineScammerGuide.pdf You Can Also View The PDF Here: OnlineScammerGuide » SCARS|RSN™ Team A SCARS Division Miami Florida U.S.A. TAGS: - Romance Scam, Romance Scammer, Spotting Scams, Dating Scam, Love [...]

RSN™ Special Report: Scammers Using Children Scammers Now Using Children As "Money" Mules Met Police warn fraudsters are targeting child 'money mules' First published in July 2017, Updated September 2018 Children are being targeted by criminals to act as money mules, police have warned. The scam involves transferring stolen money through children's bank accounts to hide it from the authorities. According to The Times, the Met Police wrote to parents warning that pupils were being [...]

Boycott African Products Now! NO MORE EXCUSES - NO MORE APOLOGISTS We have to end the lawless behavior of African Scammers, Human Traffickers & Slavers, and African Thugs & Terrorists! Until African Governments solve African problems that corrupt and harm the rest of the world we want no African products! BOYCOTT AFRICAN PRODUCTS NOW! BOYCOTT AFRICAN COFFEE! RSN COMMENTARY We are finding it amazing how many people are opposed to a boycott of African Coffee! [...]

SCARS Announcement: SCARS First Annual Conference 2019 The first annual conference for the Society of Citizens Against Romance Scams [SCARS] SCARS 1st Annual International Conference Miami Florida USA • November 16 & 17, 2019 Hosted by the Society of Citizens Against Romance Scams [SCARS] It will be two days of speakers and presentations by leading victims' advocates, law enforcement, U.S. Congressional delegates, representatives from the U.S. Government, Leading Academics, and SCARS Leadership. The agenda will be [...]

Don't Make A Disaster Worse! - Help Us Spread The Word About Disaster Scams! The scammers will be working OVERTIME on this disaster immediately. Don't let your good deeds turn into another disaster by falling for Hurricane Harvey Disaster Scams Avoiding Scams & Frauds The FBI asks that individuals beware of e-mails claiming to seek donations for major disaster relief efforts. The FBI will be checking for fraudulent websites and e-mails and will thoroughly investigate [...]

GHANA - SMALL MIRACLES: Scammers Arrested In Ghana 26 ‘Yahoo’ Boys Including Nigerians Arrested In Ghana, Laptops And Phones Recovered In a rare sign of prosecution in Ghana, 26 scammers / internet fraudsters popularly known as ‘Yahoo’ boys have been apprehended by the Madina Divisional Police Command on Friday in Ghana. According to multiple online reports from Ghana, about twenty six of them including Nigerians are suspected to be engaged in cyber crime. Since it is [...]

ANTI-SCAM ALERT: 140 Million Scammers On Facebook The Number Of Facebook Fakes Are Growing According To Recent Analysis By SCARS: There are now approximately 140,000,000 Fake Accounts On Facebook. That is 140 Million Fake, Scam, and Undesirable Accounts / Profiles Out of 2.01 Billion Facebook Accounts This is based upon an analysis of Facebook's published 2017 1st Quarter 10Q Filing to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. On Page 50 of their document they state [...]

RSN OPINION: Please Be Rational We understand that many of you are extremely angry with scammers, You have every reason and right to be angry, but that anger works against you, just as your blind faith worked against you during the scam, These scammers are not thugs (most of them at least). These scammers are business people committing crimes. They don't really view you as people, you are a demographic, a game to be played, a [...]

ONLINE ADVISORY: Own Your Online Presence As our digital lives become more connected, it is increasingly important that we all protect our personal information and manage our privacy. STOP. THINK. CONNECT.’s Own Your Online Presence campaign encourages digital citizens to better understand how to manage their digital lives with simple, actionable steps. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO OWN MY ONLINE PRESENCE? Owning your online presence is actively managing your privacy and staying current with new [...]

Why Don't Victims Report Crimes? The main reason victims don't report crimes to the police or the FBI is that they are either afraid, ashamed, or prefer to handle the matter in another way, such as report the incident to someone else. According to a 2012 study conducted by the U.S. Justice Department National Center for Crime Victims, that analyzed the reasons that roughly 52 percent of all crimes were not reported to the police [...]

RSN™ Guide: The Truth About The U.S. Military In Africa There are many incompetent anti-scam groups that claim there are no United States Military forces in Africa. The fact is that the United States has military forces in many countries. The details are not always publicized. U.S. Forces are in central, western, eastern, Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa. However, NO member of the military is going to contact a stranger on Facebook. Not only is it prohibited [...]

Welcome to the Society of Citizens Against Romance Scams Romance Scams Now is a part of our organization. To tell you all a little bit about SCARS - we are a non-profit corporation domiciled in the United States. We are what is characterized as a Non-Governmental Organization - an NGO. We were founded in 2015 (though RSN has its origin in 1991). We provide: Anti-Scam Advocacy Government Policy Development Cybercriminal Reporting Network - the SCARS [...]

SCARS Are A Partner Organization In Stop | Think | Connect Program This includes RSN Too as the SCARS Scam Avoidance Education and Scam Victims' Assistance & Support Unit Stop.Think.Connect.™ It is a national public awareness campaign aimed at increasing the understanding of cyber threats and empowering the American public to be safer and more secure online. The Campaign’s main objective is to help you become more aware of growing cyber threats and arm you with the [...]